I recently purchased the Motorola Droid from Verizon, and am so far very happy with it. Other than finding the physical keyboard a bit lacking from being extremely spoiled by the Sidekick’s physical keyboard to which no other physical keyboard could ever hope to live up to, I’ve really had no complaints with the device […]
Earlier today, this article from ComputerWorld came across my desk. The headline grabbed my attention, having indicated controversy and disagreement, which of course I’m going to look into. The article, which cites Microsoft’s semi-annual security intelligence report, claims that Microsoft has only been right in it’s vulnerability exploitability predictions about 27% of the time. Others […]
After staying with some of my local Vegas friends during BlackHat, I went over and checked into the Riviera for DEFCON 17 on Thursday afternoon. After dropping my bags in my room and getting my temporary paper badge because they were already out of the electronic badges, I ran back up to my room for […]
Last week and through the weekend I was in Las Vegas for this year’s annual block of hacker conferences, BlackHat USA and DEFCON. This year was a bit different for me as my employer no longer covers conference expenses (even if you’re speaking!), so since I was there not representing a company and entirely on […]
Todd Manning and I have a new whitepaper available over at BreakingPoint on simulating Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks using the BreakingPoint product. You can read more about the paper in my BreakingPoint blog post, or just grab the paper here. If you’re a BreakingPoint customer, you’ll want the bundled version which comes with test cases […]
When a book is so well-received by your peers as The IDA Pro Book has been, even if reverse engineering isn’t a huge part of what you do every day, you pretty much have to give it a read. The creator of IDA Pro, Ilfak Guilfanov, even recommends it himself for a number of reasons, […]
Most that know me know that I’m an avid gamer. I play video games, board games, card games, puzzles, pretty much anything I can get my hands on. Because I like puzzles and strategy games, I’ve regularly been asked what I think the most strategic game I’ve ever played is, and I’ve gotten more than […]
First let me say that this article is not meant to diminish the work that Alexander Sotirov et. all have been doing for the past 6 months. It’s good work, has brought about some awesome results, and has demonstrated what was once a theoretical attack on PKI certificates based on MD5 hash collisions. What I’m […]
A number of years ago, Microsoft led the charge by moving away from a dynamic patch release schedule to a monthly patch release schedule, essentially creating an imposed monthly patch cycle for their customers. Since then, many other vendors have followed suit. There are opinions and arguments supporting both a release schedule philosophy as well […]
I’m not going to talk about their underlying quest to end the Federal Reserve (with which I wholeheartedly agree), or about their multi-site raid by the FBI last year where all of their current inventory and all of the metals backing the Liberty Dollar warehouse receipts (paper currency) were confiscated. No, I’m not going to […]